See Here, Private Hargrove

The author, a North Carolina native, was a correspondent for The Charlotte News prior to World War II.

After he was drafted in the U.S. Army, he wrote columns for the newspaper as a private at Fort Bragg.

See Here, Private Hargrove is his collection of those columns, detailing his experiences in basic training with humor and sarcasm.

The light-hearted book was a hit with readers, spending 15 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list.

The book mentions fellow North Carolinian and journalist Lloyd Shearer, who later became a gossip columnist.